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The Delta Sigma Theta Alumnae Chapter in conjunction with the Pinkie C. Wilkerson Life Development Center will hot the City of Grambling Juneteenth Festival’s Black Poetry and Speech Contest. It is scheduled at 3 p.m. June 14.

The contest will be held at the New Rocky Valley Baptist Church on 2155 MLK Jr. Ave.

The contest is open to students in first through ninth grade who attend schools in Lincoln, Winn, Bienville, Union, Jackson and Claiborne parishes.

Carrice Cummins, endowed professor of education at Louisiana Tech University, has been awarded the International Literacy Association’s Special Service Award, which recognizes individuals who are working to advance literacy in schools and communities, is given periodically for unusual and distinguished service to ILA.

Cummins was the past president of ILA (then the International Reading Association), has served as a member of the ILA Board of Directors and several ILA committees and special interest groups, such as the Teacher Education Task Force and the Early Childhood Commission.

Sam Costanza, of Hunt, Guillot and Associates, has been promoted to the position of project director over the Ruston Project Management Group.

Prior to his transfer, Costanza was the lead project manager with the Program Management business unit within HGA with primary responsibility for overseeing the Katrina/Rita restoration contract and the Lincoln Parish Master Plan contract.